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Robert C. Darnton ’60, a Princeton historian specializing in 18th-century France, has been chosen to lead the Harvard University Library, Provost Steven E. Hyman announced yesterday afternoon...
...Darnton will replace long-time library director Sidney Verba ’53 on July 1 and assume Verba’s post as the Pforzheimer University professor. Verba announced his intention to retire in September after leading the University Library for 23 years. The university librarian position is traditionally held by a senior faculty member at Harvard...
...Darnton, a scholar in the "history of the book," will be returning to his alma mater after teaching at Princeton for nearly 40 years. He spent his undergraduate years in Adams House and served as a junior fellow on the Society of Fellows...
...Harvard University Library is one of the country’s greatest intellectual assets, but it is enormously complex and expensive. It must maintain its leadership while helping to shape the new information society of the 21st century," Darnton said in a statement. “Having, as a historian, studied the world of books in the distant past, I now have an opportunity to do something for the cause of books and book learning in the present...
...Robert Darnton is a scholar of exceptional creativity and distinction whose intellectual interests are ideally suited for the leadership of one of the world’s great libraries,” Hyman said in a statement...